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‘Regimes of Historicity’ in Southeastern and Northern Europe, 1890–1945 This page intentionally left blank ‘Regimes of Historicity’ in Southeastern and Northern Europe, 1890–1945 Discourses of Identity and Temporality Editedby Diana Mishkova Director,CentreforAdvancedStudySofia,Bulgaria Balázs Trencsényi AssociateProfessor,CentralEuropeanUniversity,Hungary and Marja Jalava AcademyResearchFellow,UniversityofHelsinki,Finland Editorialmatter,introductionandselection©DianaMishkova,Balázs TrencsényiandMarjaJalava2014 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-36246-9 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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Mishkova,Diana,1958– II. Trencsényi,Balázs,1973– III. Jalava,Marja. D395.R352014 940.072—dc23 2014018489 Contents Acknowledgments vii NotesonContributors viii Introduction 1 DianaMishkova,BalázsTrencsényi,andMarjaJalava Part I HistoricalCulturesandConceptsofTime 1 Regimesof‘BalkanHistoricity’:TheCriticalTurnand RegionalTimeinStudiesoftheBalkansbeforetheFirstWorldWar 21 DianaMishkova 2 LatecomersandForerunners:Temporality,Historicity,and ModernityinEarlyTwentieth-CenturyFinnishHistoriography 43 MarjaJalava 3 TemporalityandIdentityinDanishHistoricalDiscourse,1900–45: DanishHistoriansWritingModernity 62 ClausMøllerJørgensen 4 RegimesofHistoricity,Identity,andTemporalityinMontenegro, 1905–45 82 FrantišekŠístek 5 TemporalizationandProfessionalization:TheCaseofLauritz WeibullandtheSwedishDisciplineofHistory 101 SimonLarsson Part II TheIdeologiesofRegeneration 6 TranscendingModernity:AgrarianPopulistVisionsofCollective RegenerationinInterwarEastCentralEurope 119 BalázsTrencsényi 7 CooperativeModernity:DiscursiveConstructionsofSocialOrderin theBulgarianCooperativeMovementoftheInterwarPeriod 146 AugustaDimou 8 RevolutionaryChange,Individualism,andCollectivism:Historicity inAnarchistThinkingandItsSocialistCritiqueinEarly Twentieth-CenturyFinland 170 RalfKauranenandMikkoPollari v vi Contents 9 Regimesof‘Degeneration’and‘Regeneration’:Eugenicsand ModernizationinBulgariabeforetheSecondWorldWar 188 GerganaMircheva 10 Generation,Regeneration,andDiscoursesofIdentityinthe IntellectualFoundationsofRomanianFascism:TheCaseof theAxaGroup 210 ValentinSa˘ndulescu Part III RepresentationsofModernityandNational Temporalities 11 RegimesofHistoricityandDiscoursesofModernity:The ConceptualizationofPastandFutureinSwedishSocialSciences sincethe1870s 233 BoStråth 12 ByzantiumEvolutionized:ArchitecturalHistoryandNational IdentityinTurn-of-the-CenturySerbia 254 AleksandarIgnjatovic´ 13 ModernistFolklorism:DiscoursesonNationalMusicinGreeceand Turkey,1900–45 275 MerihErol 14 ThePast,Present,andFutureoftheMuslimMillet:Discoursesof ModernityandIdentityinInterwarBulgaria,1923–39 295 AnnaM.Mirkova 15 ‘TheClashofGenerations’:TheIdentityDiscoursesofRomanian JewishIntellectualsintheInterwarPeriod 316 CameliaCra˘ciun 16 ‘HistoricalTruthandtheRealitiesofBlood’:Romanianand HungarianNarrativesofNationalBelongingandtheCaseofthe MoldavianCsangos,1920–45 337 R.ChrisDavis Index 357 Acknowledgments Allofuswhoparticipatedintheresearchprogramthatledtothisvolumewould liketothanktheVolkswagenFoundation,theFritz-ThyssenFoundation,andthe SwedishBankTercentenaryFoundationforfinancingthescholarships,ourwork- shops, and the editing work on the manuscript. We are grateful to the staff of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and particularly to the administrative assis- tant, Dimiter Dimov, for providing excellent services and smooth organization that complemented the friendly and creative ambience of the Centre. Finally, we would like to thank Garth Greenwell and Imogen Bayley for the competent languageeditingandtechnicalworkonthemanuscript. vii Contributors Camelia Cra˘ciun is a lecturer in Eastern European Jewish culture and history at the Department of Jewish Studies, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures andaresearcherattheCenterfortheStudyofRomanianJewishHistory,Federa- tion of the Jewish Communities of Romania. She holds a PhD (2009) in Jewish studies from CEU, Budapest. She is the author of the study ‘ “Writing from Within”:JewishRomanianWritersonJewishLifeinInterwarRomania’,inTurda, M. and Pyrah, R. (eds.), Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, Culture and Minority Groups (2010), pp. 90–105; and also contributed to Jews in Eastern Europe: The YIVO Encyclopedia (2008). She has also published articles on JewishRomanianintellectualhistoryinSchweizerischeZeitschriftfürReligions-und Kulturgeschichte,EtudesBalkaniques,NewEuropeCollegeYearbook,StudiaJudaica,and theCEUJewishStudiesYearbook. R. Chris Davis completed his PhD in modern history from the University of Oxford in 2013. He currently teaches humanities and world history at Lone Star College-Kingwood and serves as lead editor of H-Romania, an H-Net dis- cussion network. He has also taught political history as a visiting lecturer at the National School of Political Science and Public Administration (SNSPA) in Bucharest. His research focuses on minorities and the construction of historical narrativesandidentitiesinEastCentralEurope.Selectedpublications:‘Clericalism andEthnicMobilizationinTwentieth-CenturyRomaniaandHungary’,inPyrah, R. and Turda, M. (eds.), Re-Contextualising East Central European History: Nation, CultureandMinorityGroups(Oxford,2010),pp.74–88;‘RescueandRecovery:The Biopolitics and Ethnogenealogy of Moldavian Catholics in 1940s Romania’, in Ilyés, S., Peti, L. and Pozsony, F. (eds.), Local and Transnational Csángó Lifeworlds (Cluj, 2008), pp. 95–111; ‘Restocking the Ethnic Homeland: Ideological and Strategic Motives behind Hungary’sHazatelepítés Schemes duringWWII (and the UnintendedConsequences)’,Regio,10(2007):155–74. AugustaDimouiscurrentlyaFellowattheInstituteofAdvancedStudy(FRIAS)– SchoolofHistoryoftheUniversityofFreiburg.SheholdsaPhDinmodernhistory fromtheEuropeanUniversityinFlorence.Shehasworkedasanadjunctlecturerat theUniversityofIoanninaandasanassociateresearcherattheInstituteofSlavic StudiesandtheCentrefortheHistoryandCultureofEast-CentralEurope(GWZO) oftheUniversityofLeipzig.Shespecializesinthecomparativesocial,cultural,and intellectualhistoryofSoutheasternandEastCentralEuropeinthenineteenthand twentieth centuries. Her publications include Entangled Paths towards Modernity. ContextualizingSocialismandNationalismintheBalkans(Budapest,2009);andthe viii NotesonContributors ix edited volume ‘Transition’ and the Politics of History Education in Southeast Europe (Göttingen,2009). MerihErolcurrentlyteachesattheHistoryDepartmentofBog˘aziçiUniversityin Istanbul.Lastyear,shewasavisitingscholaratHarvardUniversity,theMindade Gunzburg Center for European Studies. Previously, she was awarded the Hannah SeegerDavisPost-DoctoralResearchFellowshipinHellenicStudies,PrincetonUni- versity.In2010,shewasapostdoctoralresearchfellowattheProgramforHistory ofEmotionsattheMaxPlanckInstituteforHumanDevelopment,Berlin.Among her recent publications are: ‘Surveillance, Urban Governance, and Legitimacy in late Ottoman Istanbul: Spying on Music and Entertainment in the Hamidian Regime(1876–1909)’,UrbanHistory,40(4),(2013):pp.1–20;and‘Musicandthe NationinGreekandTurkishContexts(19th–early20thc.):AParadigmofCultural Transfers’, Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 47 (2), (2011): pp. 165–75. Her forthcom- ingbookisentitledMusicandNationintheGreekOrthodoxCommunityofOttoman Istanbul. AleksandarIgnjatovic´isanassociateprofessorattheUniversityofBelgrade.Hav- ingobtainedhisPhDforacross-disciplinarystudyoftheideologyofYugoslavism, architecture,andvisualculture,hehasbeenworkingontopicsrelatedtocultural history and history of architecture of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published extensively on the relationship of architecture and national ideologies, including the two monographs Arhitektonski poˇceci Dragiše Brašovana 1906–1919 (2003) and Jugoslovenstvo u arhitekturi 1904–1941 (2007), as well as ‘NationalMuseumsinSerbia:AStoryofIntertwinedIdentities’(co-authoredwith OlgaManojlovic´ Pintar),inAronsson,P.andElgenius,G.(eds.),BuildingNational MuseumsinEurope,1750–2010(Linköping,2011),pp.779–815. Marja Jalava is Academy Research Fellow at the Department of Philosophy, His- tory, Culture and Art Studies, University of Helsinki. Her fields of research are intellectual history, conceptual history, history of higher education, and Nordic history(nineteenthandtwentiethcenturies).Amonghermostrecentpublications are the monograph The University in the Making of the Welfare State (Frankfurt am Main, 2012); a co-edited anthology, Kirjoitettu kansakunta (The Written Nation) (Helsinki, 2013); and articles on the history of historiography, among others ‘“Kulturgeschichte” as a Political Tool: The Finnish Case’, Historein, 11 (2011): pp. 125–35; and ‘Nordic Countries as a Historical and Historiographical Region. Towards a Critical Writing of Translocal History’, História da Historiografia, 11 (2013):pp.244–64. RalfKauranen,PhD,isasociologistbasedintheDepartmentofFinnishLiterature attheSchoolofHistory,CultureandArtsStudiesoftheUniversityofTurku.Atthe momentheisinvolvedintheprojects‘TransnationalConnectionsofFinnishLit- eraryCulture’,‘VoiceandSilenceofClass–CritiqueofRecentConceptions’,and ‘MultilingualisminContemporaryLiteratureinFinland’.
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